Mark 6:25

Mark's narrative emphasizes the eager haste with which the murder was pushed. She came in straightway and demanded the boon forthwith.

By and by [ε ξ α υ τ η ς]. Obsolete in the old sense of immediately. The A. V. translates eujquv, straightway, in Matthew 13:21, by and by : eujqewv, Mark 4:17, immediately : and the same word in Luke 21:9, by and by. Exauthv is rendered immediately, Acts 10:33; Acts 11:11 : straightway, Acts 23:30 : presently, Philippians 2:23. Rev., forthwith. The expression by and by in older English was sometimes used of place. Thus Chaucer.

"Right in the same chamber by and by" (close by).

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"Two young knights lying by and by" [ν ε α ρ τ ο γ ε τ η ε ρ].

Edward IV is reported to have said on his death - bed : "I wote (know) not whether any preachers words ought more to move you than I that is going by and by to the place that they all preach of."

Charger. See on Matthew 14:8.